Star
Antares
Antares is a red star 554 light-years away, seen as it was 554 years ago, shining 9 454 times as bright as the Sun.
A red supergiant so big that, put in the Sun's place, it would reach into the asteroid belt. Its name means rival to Ares, for its Mars-red colour.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 554 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.06
- Spectral type
- M1Ib + B2.5V
- Catalogue
- HIP 80763
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.